Sabathia signs one-year deal with Yankees

CC Sabathia, a 37-year-old left-handed pitcher who helped the New York Yankees win the 2009 World Series, signed a one-year deal on Tuesday to return for a 10th season with the Major League Baseball club.Sabathia, who reportedly will make $10 million, is coming off a season in which he suffered a right knee injury in August but returned in October to help the Yankees come within one game of the World Series before falling to eventual champion Houston in the American League Championship Series.Sabathia went 14-5 with a 3.69 earned-run average last season and went 120-73 with a 3.75 earned-run average in 255 starts over nine seasons with the Yankees. Sabathia returns to a Yankees pitching rotation that includes Japan’s Masahiro Tanaka, Sonny Gray and Luis Severino.“I feel like this is a young team and we will turn this into something great,” Sabathia said after the Yankees were ousted from the playoffs. “This is my home and I want to see this thing through.”Sabathia, who attracted interest from Toronto and the Los Angeles Angels, is baseball’s active leader with 2,846 career strikeouts and 3,317 innings pitched over 17 major league seasons. He is 237-146 with a 3.70 ERA with Cleveland, Milwaukee and the Yankees.Twins sign veteran left-hander Zach Duke The Minnesota Twins signed veteran left-handed reliever Zach Duke to a one-year contract, the team announced. Duke, 34, went 1-1 with a 3.93 ERA in 27 appearances for the St. Louis Cardinals last season after returning midway through the campaign from Tommy John surgery.The former 2009 All-Star with the Pittsburgh Pirates will be playing for his eighth different team - and his seventh in the past eight seasons.He is 61-85 with a 4.54 ERA in 468 appearances (169 starts) with the Pirates (2005-10), Arizona Diamondbacks (2011), Washington Nationals (2012-13), Cincinnati Reds (2013), Milwaukee Brewers (2014), Chicago White Sox (2015-16) and St. Louis Cardinals (2016-17). The Cincinnati Reds signed right-handed reliever Jared Hughes to a two-year contract, the team announced.The deal is reportedly worth $4.5 million. There is also a $3 million club option for 2020 with a buyout of $250,000.Hughes, 32, went 5-3 with a 3.02 ERA for the Milwaukee Brewers last season. He spent his first six seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates before joining the Brewers. He has a 20-16 record and 2.86 ERA in 380 career relief appearances.